Jeepsn beer
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How do you clean a 15 gallon Sankey keg? What tools?
[*]Remove spear
Relieve pressure first. Pour hot water on it, repeat if necessary. You don't have to beat it up to get the spear out.
I have the keg but haven't been able to drive that retaining ring thing around yet to get the spear out. I've read the "anatomy of a keg" page, etc, but I still can't get it.
:-(
I don't mean to hijack. Just wanted to whine a little.
maybe this will help http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~workman/homebrew/Sanke.html.
maybe this will help http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~workman/homebrew/Sanke.html.
Some of my brew partners ferment in 15.5gal Sanke's and here is how we get them clean.
Remove the spear
Add 8gallons of water and bring to a boil
Add PBW and insert rubber stopper
Shake the living hell out of it and let sit for 30minutes
With rubber stopper still in turn the keg upside down and let the hot pbw water clean the "other" half of the keg.
Since we ferment using two of these at a time we just use the hot pbw water from the first one to clean the second one.
Then we rinse/repeat with Star San.
I am failing at the very first step: "To remove the tube, you first must remove the retaining "spring". I did this by pushing it around with a flat screwdriver until the end was visible through one of the holes in the fitting built onto the keg. "
No, just smelled like old beer (like it did when bleeding the pressure out). The spear and what I could see of the inside with the flashlight looked fine. Will be easier to see and scrub out once the top is liberated.
oh wow, that's cool! How do you put an airlock in it?
I'd imagine just another one of those rubber stoppers, but with a hole drilled in it then the airlock shoved in. What size stopper goes into one of those?
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